Automatic film cleaner



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D. U.-G OULD, JR

AUTOMATIC FILM CLEANER BY ATTVY Sept. 12, 1933. D. u. GOULD, JR

I AUTOMATIC FILM CLEANER Filed March 14, 1932 3 Sheets-Sheet:- 2

INVENTOR Sepia, 32, 11933. D. u. GOULD, JR

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Feiented Sept. 12, 1933 PATENT oeeioe AUTQMATIC FILMGLEANEB Don. Ulixm Gould, la, Shel-home, N. Y.

Application March 14,

1932. Serial No. 598,542

1 6mm. ion. le liill Tins invention relates to a device for cleaning films for motion picture machines, the general object of the invention being to provide brush means for cleaning the film as it is run through the machine, so as to remove dust, dirt and the like from the film.

This invention also consists in certain other features of construction and in the combination and orrengement of the several parts to be hereinelitei' fully described, illustrated in the eccomdrawings and specifically pointed out in the appended claim.

In clescrioiiog the invention in detail, referenee will ice lied to the eecompanying drawings 35 wherein like characters clenote like or correspending parts throughout the several views, end in Willemmeme 1 is an elevation showing e. machine eoiiiogoecl with the invention.

2 is an enlarged section on line 2--2 of is section on line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

section on line 5-4 of Fig. 2.

e seotiom on line 5-5 of Fig. 2.

e, persgseetive view of one of the ii its hood end showing 2:. pert oi the leading from the chute to the suction el votiozi, showing how the conduit leads lime to the suction device.

e i is e. hoiizontel sectional view, with e sectional View through the we A eela oi slooits 6 is ioumelled in the two me.

of this seetiom, seixi wells forming 2. ohm- AE at one side of the mom chamber e of the section, end seiel slieliis ese extended through said enem es: s end the ports of the slieits loeeteii in solo mein eloemher 3 sorry the eyiiissli'ioel brushes e for brushing tiie film strip lo it through the main chamber, the emi tog; oi sold main 'ehombes, being ioeseeel with the slots 11 for the passage of the strip.

the member i seen shaft is if '55 with so moved cog wheel or pinion 13 and thee eze messed by the oppositely womis 13 on a shaft 14 which passes through the casing section and has e. pulley 15 on one end thereof over which passes a belt is end this belt also passes over a pulley 17 on the shutter shaft 18. Thus the brushes ere driven in opposite disections from the shutter shaft and opposite to the travel of the film, so that they will clesn the dirt and dust and other foreign matter from the film strip, and. the brushes ce'n be soteted faster than the film is moving.

Toe brushes are made of soft smash meteriel which will give when the film lies at out on it. The matter eolleeting on the brushes is depositeoi into the chutes l9 wmeh ere eeei'i provided with a. hood so at its uppee end, 01" partly enclosing the brush. chutes slope clownwerdly and outwardly tows-3% the end of the easing sestion, one. see connected by the oon= suits 21 with the veewim producing means 22, the sotors of which are eoimeeteci with the sheft l-i Lilli these means 22 meg diselieege into any suitable container wherever desired. is shown, eeeli chute 1% is of 9. width. to fit snugly between the front and reee'wells of the climber E3 and the seas emi of each ehute upwardly ex tending portion 15* to which one one; of the eon cluit all. is connected. The other of the conduit is eomeetezi with the some of the suction device, the some of which is the diselisrge the slsive from the shutter shaft to the size-it is belt one pulley one, @zive is noiseless.

it is thought from fine foregoing oeseription that the advantages end novel fee ores oi invention lie readily sppereiit.

It is to be omiersteocl that olienges may be made in the construction seal in the combine tion emi eirsmgement of time several eerie pro-- vided thet sueli ohenges within the seoee oi the egooemled.

Having time described my invention. whet E eleim as see? is: I v

A film cleaning attachment for 22. motion pic-- ture machine comprising a. casing having a pertition therein dividing the some into two chombers, the wells of one chamber having elinecl slots therein for the passage of the film strip through the chamber, e, pair of shafts roteteloly supzoorted fey sole partition and one well of the cosine with the shafts extending into said chamher through which the film strip posses, brushes connected to seicl sheits end located in the film chamber and between which the film passes, a drive :lieft extending longitudinally through the amas:

tached to the.drlve mm, m m of chutes m.

the film chamber each having enlarged inner end: for receivin: portions ef the brushes, and means for connecting the mater ends 01 the chutes to the suction DON 60 m sea 

